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Vedanta philosophies discuss three fundamental metaphysical categories and the relations between the three. [14] [32] Brahman or Īśvara: the ultimate reality [33] Ātman or Jivātman: the individual soul, self [34] Prakriti or Jagat: the empirical world, ever-changing physical universe, body and matter [35]
Hindu cosmology is the description of the universe and its states of matter, ... Advaita Vedanta states that the creation arises from Brahman, but it is illusory and ...
Advaita Vedanta (/ ʌ d ˈ v aɪ t ə v ɛ ˈ d ɑː n t ə /; Sanskrit: अद्वैत वेदान्त, IAST: Advaita Vedānta) is a Hindu tradition of textual exegesis and philosophy which states that jivatman, the individual experiencing self, is ultimately pure awareness mistakenly identified with body and the senses, [2] and non ...
In the Svabhāvika Bhedābheda view, Brahman is seen as both the efficient and material cause of the universe. [7] [23] Brahman serves as the material cause of the universe by transforming His inherent powers from subtle to gross forms. These powers, known as Parā and Apara, Although these as a power, different from the possessor of powers ...
Vedanta Desika is one of the foremost learned scholars and philosophers of medieval India, who has written more than a hundred works in Sanskrit and Tamil, Prakrit and Manipravala. He is said to have been born as an incarnation of the divine bell of Venkateshwara of Tirupati and also of Ramanuja in the month of Purattasi under the star ...
The first eight case studies in the third Pada of chapter 2 discuss whether the world has an origin or not, whether the universe is co-eternal with Brahman or is an effect of Brahman (interpreted as dualistic God in theistic sub-schools of Vedanta), and whether the universe returns into Brahman periodically. [70]
Until the 11th century, Vedanta itself was a peripheral school of thought; [94] Vedanta became a major influence when Vedanta philosophy was utilized by various sects of Hinduism to ground their doctrines, [95] such as Ramanuja (11th c.), who aligned bhakti, "the major force in the religions of Hinduism," with philosophical thought, meanwhile ...
The universe and the divine are not ontologically equivalent. God is viewed as the eternal animating force within the universe. ... Vedanta is the inquiry into and ...